Ignoring.

[Strong Atheist]

Poll question: Ignoring.

I promised myself when I joined D.U. that I would TRY to never put anyone on "ignore", and so far in my short time here I have not done so...

To the best of my knowledge, only two people ignored me, and now both are talking to me again (whew!).

Anywho, I wondered how many people you have on ignore RIGHT now.



Note, mods, that I am not asking people to name WHO they are ignoring, just how many...


Going home now, will check this in the morning ...

[purr]

1. I dont have any but I have a sneaky suspicion that some have me on

theirs. I dont know why I'm harmless :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

I can see ya

:hi:

[purr]

8. Thats good :)

:hi: You werent on my list :)

[DainBramaged]

83. All purring creatures are harmless and adorable

I added about 10 people today. Bad day for arguments. Best way to prevent them in the future.

[blondeatlast]

2. I've used it; but everytime I re-evaluate my list, it turns out

my "ignorables" have been banned (I'm a GDP fan, too).

[Strong Atheist]

19. GDP? Sorry, slow today.... nt.

[blondeatlast]

23. General Discussion: Politics: a hotbed of thoughtful insanity. nt

[Strong Atheist]

24. Ah. nt.

[Call Me Wesley]

3. None.

Not going to be involved in certain discussions does the trick for me.

[Strong Atheist]

25. Hi!

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

26. Hi!

How goes? :hi:

[Strong Atheist]

29. Ok. Goin' home now.

How are you and Heidi and the cats?

[Call Me Wesley]

31. We're good, thank you.

Quite a stressful week but getting to it's end. :)

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. Ignore is your friend

and it is good for your blood pressure too

[BlueIris]

7. YEAH, it is. My bp is SO much better now that my Ignore list is lengthy.

SO MUCH BETTER.

[Broken_Hero]

5. none, that i know of n/t

[bridgit]

6. 0...

[mainegreen]

9. I always had a distaste for the ignore option.

Seems a bit like sticking your fingers in you ear and going 'la-la-la-la-la' when you hear something you don't like. Plus who doesn't like a nice scrap now and then?

[Strong Atheist]

11. Agreed on all counts.

Hey, it just occured to me:

who doesn't like a nice scrap now and then?

(beligerantly): You tryin' to start a fight?

[mainegreen]

15. Flame away mon ami!

I'm fireproof!

:P

[Strong Atheist]

17. Lol!

Just kidding!

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. I invite a good scrap

But I got pretty tired of being threadjacked. :eyes:

[Call Me Wesley]

27. Hi, Oeditpus Rex!

:hi:






















:loveya: :loveya:

[Call Me Wesley]

30. Hi, Call Me Wesley!

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. Hi, o sultry one

:hi: :toast:

[Call Me Wesley]

33. LOL!

I was just trying to start a proper sub-thread.

:toast:

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. Threadjacker!

Alert! Alert!

:rofl:

[Call Me Wesley]

38. .

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[Oeditpus Rex]

40. ..

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Call Me Wesley]

41. Keep it up,

we're almost there! :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. Where are we going?

Straight to DU hell, probably. :evilgrin:

[Call Me Wesley]

44. I don't know ...

And since Strong Atheist started the thread, there's no hell! Nyah nyah nyah!

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. I hadn't thought o' that

So we're safe, then — as long as we don't grovel.

[Call Me Wesley]

46. Hmmm ...

Grovel, grovel, grovel!

[Oeditpus Rex]

47. Why is your Dog darker than mine?

Is yours from Ibiza?

[Call Me Wesley]

49. Ack!

I turned off some lights, sorry.

Ibiza, you want to scare me? Or are you having some longings for drinking 'Sangria' out of a bucket with some friends?

[Oeditpus Rex]

50. Cannes, then

Or Torquay.

I don't know anything about Ibiza; just the Python references.

Y'know, like...

"Found them? In Ibiza? The cocoanut's tropical!"



Oh, wait... :blush:

[Call Me Wesley]

51. Umph.

My Google just crashed ...

You know, the German translations of Monty Python really suck ...

[Oeditpus Rex]

53. The site with the scripts of the German episodes

is down. :grr:

I do recall, though, the German version of the Lumberjack Song rhyming "bustenhalter" with "uncle Walter."

[Strong Atheist]

65. Dang tootin'! ..... You threadjackers, you!

:P

[Gormy Cuss]

21. la la la la la la la

:hide:

On edit: la la la Portland sucks la la la la la la

[mainegreen]

56. Well, the one in Oregon does!

[Gormy Cuss]

57. ....

;-)

[Renew Deal]

36. Exactly

That's how I ended up on a couple ignore lists. People just couldn't understand that I didn't agree.

[ghostsofgiants]

10. None.

No matter how idiotic someone is, I won't ignore.

[Strong Atheist]

13. "No matter how idiotic..."

Given our minor skirmishes, I think I resemble that remark!;-)

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Not even sure I remember those...

So you couldn't have been THAT idiotic, haha.

[Strong Atheist]

20. Lol!

:toast:

[Catchawave]

14. If the time comes to put a DUer on ignore....

I'll find a new forum :hi:

[Misunderestimator]

16. It's like bug spray.

Sometimes, you just need it... even though you don't like the fumes.

[Midlodemocrat]

22. I haven't put anyone on ignore and don't intend to.

If I don't care for a certain poster, I don't read their posts. That being said, the ignore feature has prevented some pretty flamey flame wars.

[Call Me Wesley]

28. Don't you have to read all posts, being a mod?

I know that EstimatedProphet still suffered from it and had serious flashbacks, clicking on every thread to read through. :rofl:

[Renew Deal]

34. I ignore no one, but I think there are at least 3 that have me on ignore.

3 cowards that is.

[bigwillq]

35. I've never put anyone on ignore.

If I don't like them, I just don't talk to them.

[Strong Atheist]

66. Sensible. That has no place in the Lounge!

:P

[ET Awful]

39. I think the most I ever had was a dozen or so, usually because they

were interfereing with legitimate conversations by going off on some foolish tirade.

I usually do it until the furor over the topic causing said tirade has calmed down, then I purge the ignore list. :P

[Blue_Tires]

42. who is this "Robb" and why is he a dingbat?

[Renew Deal]

52. Ignored

For being a Mets fan.

[Blue_Tires]

60. Ignored

for hatin' on New York's one TRUE baseball team!

[Strong Atheist]

64. Answer:

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Dingbat

[LaraMN]

48. I haven't got anyone on ignore.

No one has irritated or offended me consistently enough to warrant the honor.

[khashka]

54. No one

A few people have been personally abusive but I just figured that what I said managed to hit them in a soft spot and so they hit back. Nothing personal. No harm, no foul. Just the usaul disagreements that come with life. Even when they hit below the belt, that doesn't mean they have nothing to say that I couldn't learn from.


I figure a lot of people have me on ignore. For gods' sake, TJ has put me on ignore 3 times (by his count). And HT put me on ignore (although he swears he didn't). So even if my friends do it - goddess knows how many other people have!

Khash.

(OK I did have one guy on ignore, briefly, but he really was an asshole and was quickly kicked out the door by the powers that be. And that was a long time ago.)

[tjwmason]

70. You deserved all of those.

But now you've got my promise (on my honour as an Englishman) that I won't do it again - so you're safe unless I decide to turn into la perfide Albion.

[khashka]

80. On your honour as an Englishman

you have to admit, I only deserved two of the three. The other one was when you were in a snit and were ignoring everybody. (Although at the time you said everybody but me - I still have the PM).

Anyway, I am so glad to see you :) All the past is forgotten.


Khash.

(By the way, Xema told me she thinks you're a sexy devil. I could not but agree.)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

55. Nah, I Gotta Know What People Are Sayin. Bet Some Got Me On Ignore

though, but if they do it's only because they know they can't outwit my intellect and logic hehehe

:)

[Strong Atheist]

67. Hehe!

:toast:

[LSK]

58. None, never have

Although theres a couple who get on my nerves over in GD.

[Strong Atheist]

68. Well, GD, you know ..... nt.

[hobo_baggins]

59. i haven't ignored anyone...

but im fairly certain i'm on several peoples ignore lists...i tend to upset people i guess

[KitchenWitch]

61. I have zero on my list...but I think there are a few who may have me on it

[Strong Atheist]

69. Not me!

:hug:

Oh, BTW, probably better NOT check out today's (Thursday's) earworm, to be put up later (~ 9:15)... It has been annoying me for a few days, so I thought I would pass it on ... avoid it!

[Kali]

62. I don't have anyone on ignore, wonder if I am even known enough

to be ignored by anybody else? I do have a couple of hot subjects I can't seem to ignore when maybe I should, and often end up "conversing strongly" with the same two or three individuals - kind of amazes me that THEY don't have me on ignore.

[Nicole]

63. None n/t

[tjwmason]

71. None at the moment.

But there have been some - including some who departed shortly after, to great relief on the part of myself and others.

[LaurenG]

72. I don't have anyone on ignore either

I have not liked some of the comments made at times but I've noticed people generally just go off on a tangent over one or two issues so I just read over what they have to say and "mostly" keep on going without stopping. Most everyone calms down the next day anyway. :)

[Sugar Smack]

73. Only one.

:hi:

Obviously it's not you.

[Strong Atheist]

75. Obviously...

:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

74. I only ignore vicious, caustic, assholes who don't want dialogue,

only demogoguery, and who think that spewing invective, ignoring posts, and intentionally misreading posts and responding to things that weren't said is appropriate.

So, apart from the many ignored who ended up banned, I only have two people on ignore right now.

[Strong Atheist]

76. Well, I know from our exchnges that I am not one of them... nt.

[Rabrrrrrr]

77. No, you certainly are not!

[DainBramaged]

78. Wow, no one I'm ignoring is here, but I'm sure I'm on a few ignore lists

Quite a few actually. But, ya just can't please all of the people all of the time.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

79. I've got around 100.

But I think almost half of those have been banned.

[Strong Atheist]

85. Wow. nt.

[Critters2]

81. I don't have anyone on ignore right now

but I think there are two people who have me on ignore. I don't mind.

[anarch]

82. that's funny...I promised myself I'd try to put everyone on DU on Ignore

but it's really hard to keep up.

[SofaKingLiberal]

84. 0 n/t

[TheBaldyMan]

86. How can you tell if s/o has you on ignore ?

[Strong Atheist]

89. They both told me that they would, and subsequent non-responses on their

part to posts to their posts sorta confirmed it. Then both told me I was off later...

[TheBaldyMan]

92. maybe you should change your name to Erasmus

thanks for the info

[Strong Atheist]

95. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus? I see no connection?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus

[TheBaldyMan]

97. famous humanist long before it was fashionable

might not get a knee-jerk reaction as your current one.

[hfojvt]

87. I have nobody on ignore

but I have one person I am determined not to respond to any more. That's almost the same thing. I wonder if there are alot of others who would like to be on that list. Clearly, everyone makes economising decisions about which threads to read and which posts (and posters) to respond to, although "my posts" has a large influence, and for a brief period there I experienced a flood of responses that was hard to keep up with.

[Strong Atheist]

91. "I wonder if there are alot of others who would like to be on

that list" ???????????

[hfojvt]

93. "There may be something in what you say, Rabbit"

"I must move about more. I must come and go."
"That's right, Eeyore. Drop in on any of us at any time, when you feel like it."
"Thank you, Rabbit. And if anybody says in a Loud Voice 'Bother, it's Eeyore,' I can drop out again."

What? Do you want your name on the list or not?

[Strong Atheist]

96. No, not particularly. I am just finding this conversation....

disjointed ...

[Shell Beau]

88. 0, it is no fun to ignore

[Strong Atheist]

90. Good for you! I will resist saying anything about ol...... nt.

[Dave Reynolds]

94. Nobody.

Because I read even what assholes have to say.